Comments by "Gaza is not Amalek" (@Ass_of_Amalek) on "Taliban have begun enforcing ban on poppy cultivation in Afghanistan | DW News" video.

  1. yes, and half of the other half is hashish that's in principle just as haram as opium.
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  2. I'm surprised that ali latifi is back in kabul. is he going to investigate for us when we can expect the ANA counterattack on lashkar gah?
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  3. I think one of the most important things in the cocoa market has actually been that the big chocolate producers have long kept huge strategic stockpiles of cocoa beans equaling more than a year of global consumption. that's given them the leverage to keep prices low, because they can always afford not to buy for longer than their suppliers can afford not to sell, even if huge percentages of suppliers were to try to bargain collectively. I hope something comes of the west african efforts to start producing chocolate products domestically.
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  4. yeah, isis acts all high and mighty about sharia, but they've actually long been involved in the drug trade in a very big way. most notably, they used to manufacture huge quantities of amphetamine pills (many tons) both for sale and for their own fighters. reportedly, most ISIS fighters in iraq and syria were heavy amphetamine users. though I guess amphetamines are relatively easy to make sharia excuses for, since islam bans drugs that "dull the mind" or something like that, and this is commonly interpreted to not apply to at least some stimulants like tea, coffee and khat. it seems significantly harder to excuse a heavy amphetamine habit though than to excuse normal coffee consumption, since the side effects and withdrawal symptoms or even the addiction itself that develop over time could easily be considered to be a dulling of the mind.
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  5. cliff afghanistan could grow saffron like they do in kashmir. really the thing where the big money would be in a sufficiently stable afghanistan is mineral extraction, and particularly rare earths. afghanistan has extremely large rare earth deposits. china is certainly interested in them. china already is the world's biggest rare earths producer, but cornering an important market like that even more is always nice. as far as trading things through afghanistan goes, I don't think that there is any money to be made whatsoever. the silk road is gone for good, and today afghanistan is a landlocked mountainous country with hardly any roads. I think they might actually have NO rails, I'm not sure though. transport through afghanistan is a disaster.
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  6. what's causing harm is mostly the deug war. opiates could be used about as safely as alcohol if they were similarly socially integrated.
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  7. only opium poppies (well, papaver somniferum generally, not just specific opium-producing strains) are banned in many countries, but in most of those countries the ban is so unenforced that people still buy them in normal decorative flower mixes or even sold specifically as poppy flower seeds. dried opium poppy pods are also sold as floristic decoration. all of the poppy seeds you can buy as food or as bird feed are opium poppy seeds. you can see opium poppies growing in and around gardens everywhere (they're recognizable by their cabbage-like hairless blueish waxy leaves). if you just plant a few poppy plants in no discernable pattern, and don't let people see any scratched seed pods, there is pretty much no chance anybody would bother you. and you could still, instead of scraping opium, make tea from the pods (and maybe also the leaves, I don't know). for medicinal opiate production, they harvest the whole plant and then extract the stuff with some kind of solvent process.
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  8. panjshir pederasts>taliban
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  9. fajar tiyar Abdul majid the taliban are trash and will be challenged when their state inevitably fails. my comment was sarcastic, based on this guy's reporting as the taliban conquered afghanistan. he had an extremely hard time accepting the reality that afghanistan was collapsing, and at one point, when the taliban were early in the process of taking the provincial capitals, he predicted that the war was about to turn around with an ANA counterattack on lashkar gah, which obviously never happened, and instead the taliban took kabul about two weeks later. I actually felt bad for him because he sounded so defeated. he seemed like he was ready to kill himself. for him as an internationally connected and presumably liberal long term resident of kabul, his whole world fell apart. it was still darkly amusing in how bad the reporting was though, so I keep joking about it every time I see him on this channel. I hope he's doing ok, I'm surprised that he returned to kabul.
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  10. I reckon it means that they want to sell individual licenses to opium farmers and traders instead of allowing it overall and missing out on the potential for a shakedown.
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  11. wheat needs much more water that they don't have. saffron doesn't though.
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